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CHARLOTTE -
Defending regular season champion North Carolina grabbed third place in the
2012-13 preseason Atlantic Coast Conference poll, the ACC announced on
Wednesday. The assembled media at ACC
Operation Basketball, the conference's annual preseason media day, picked NC
State to finish first and Duke to finish second.

The Wolfpack earned 26 first-place votes on the 53 ballots
and 601 overall points in the voting.
Duke got 21 first-place votes and 589 points. UNC finished with 520 points. Fourth-place Florida State got the final six
first-place votes and finished with 484 points overall.